Hello Mashed Potato,

HoHoA? ... I have yet to venture into hash-land ...

A good place to start would be chromatic’s book Modern Perl, which is available for free download from http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/. Look at Chapter 3, “The Perl Language,” subsections “Hashes” and “Nested Data Structures.” Then work through these Perl documentation tutorials: perlreftut and perldsc.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^3: Define string on current line, then match other lines with string below the line by Athanasius
in thread Define string on current line, then match other lines with string below the line by Mashed Potato

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